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LIVE GIRLS! Announces 2007 Season
SEATTLE WA— The
spunky Live Girls! announce an exciting and diverse line-up as they enter their
eighth year of producing new work by women.
Live Girls! will be
presenting two World Premieres from Seattle playwrights, a West Coast Premiere
from award winning playwright Victoria Stewart
and Quickies Volume 8 to Seattle
audiences this year. All of this
on top of our development programs and our legendary Art Walk Cabarets.
All shows at Live Girls!
theater in Ballard
2220 NW Market Lower Level
The
2007 Season Line-up-
Quickies
Volume 8
Runs June 1st
-30th Thurs/Fri 8pm Sat 4pm/8pm
Quickies is Live Girls! trademark event and longest running
program. Created with the devilishly simple idea of exposing you to as many new
works as possible in one night,
Quickies delivers exciting new plays from all over the country,
exposure to up and coming local writers and lots of gratuitous entertainment in
between.
Short and sassy,
the Quickies always leave you begging for more!
The
Volume 8 line-up includes-
Cell
Mates by Molly
Best Tinsley
Teen
Love By Holly
Arsenault
Hum
of the Artic By
Sarah Hammond
Desperate
Measures By
Erin Stewart
Alone
Together Kim
Carney
Barbed
Wire Minute By
Krista Knight
WORLD
PREMIERE!
Mud
Angel
By Joy
McCullough-Carranza
July 20th to
Aug 11th Thurs/Fri 8pm Sat 4pm/8pm
"Éthe
village is small but memories are long."
When
Pablo left his tiny Guatemalan village of Chinautla to move to the United
States, he was only twelve years old.
Now twenty-nine, he and his wife will return to Chinautla as
part of
the publicity for his new novel.
In Chinautla, the people he left behind prepare for his return. His
childhood love Ana has never stopped waiting for him. How will his
success
in his adopted land be received by the community of birth? When guilt taints
your ability to reconnect with the people and places that made you, a
homecoming is
anything
but simple.
World
Premiere!
Girls
By Zoe Fitzgerald
Sept 14th-29th
Thurs/Fri 8pm Sat 4pm/8pm
Can art
save? Commissioned by Live Girls!
in 2005 this exciting new work was inspired by Northwest Painter Kathleen
Houlahan. In the 1930Õs, Kathleen
Houlahan decided to
paint
portraits of students from the Ruth School for Wayward Girls as gifts to help
boost their self-esteem. Zoe
FitzgeraldÕs play Girls tells the story of a young painter today as
she
attempts the same project for girls in a local group home. What does it mean to
truly see yourself through another persons eyes? Who will be transformed: the painter or the
subjects?
West
Coast Premiere!
800
Words: The Transmigration of Philip K Dick
By Victoria Stewart
Oct 19th-
Nov 17th Thurs/Fri 8pm Sat 4pm/8pm
A reinvention of the last few days of legendary science
fiction writer Philip K Dick, which happens to include a phantom twin, a secret
agent man, a talking cat and the voice of
God. What and
whose reality, or fantasy, are we watching onstage? Whose reality are we
living? Was Philip K Dick a visionary or madman? Based on a true
story, the play
begins just as PhilipÕs novel Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep is to be released as the Hollywood film Blade Runner. If you like a firm line between art and
entertainment,
reality and fantasy, us versus them, prepare to have your
mind blown by the Victoria StewartÕs 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K
Dick.
Returning
programs-
The
Bakery
The Bakery series is Live Girls! new-work development
program which starts out with our play reading festival, and continues through
the year with workshops and writing
challenges. Our
writing challenge 5x5 will be returning for 2007, dates TBA.
The Bakery- Spring
Readings
April 20th
-21st Friday 7pm
Saturday 2pm and 7pm
Your chance to be a part of the development process and
discuss new works! Five of the plays chosen for past festivals have been slated
for production by Live Girls! or other
local companies. Our audience truly sees it first! 3 full-length plays by professional
writers are chosen along with 3 plays by teen writers from the ACT Young
Playwrights
Program and Rainier Valley Youth Theater. Visit www.livegirlstheater.org to get
the complete schedule!
This yearÕs readings include-
Devil's
Chord by Elena
Hartwell
Save
Love Canal by
Molly Best Tinsley
Pussy
Boy by
Christine Evans
Young
Love by Alexa
Jarvis, Seattle Academy, ACT
Fake
Names, Big Problems by Sha'ray Gainer, Rainier Beach, RVYT
Letting
Go of Something That Never Was by Bethany Greer, Garfield, ACT
LG
Cabaret
A 6
Pack Season
Every Second Saturday
May- October 11pm
Part of the Ballard Art
Walk
May 12th,
June 9th, July 14th, Aug 11th, Sep 8th,
Oct 13th
The
legendary Live Girls! Cabaret returns for a condensed and intense season. A performance event designed as a
showcase for female performers and artists of all kinds, the
LG
Cabaret is beloved by many. Each month Live Girls! picks a theme and packs in
all the talented ladies and their friends that we can fit into one night.
Comedy, music, improv,
chick
fights, skits, readings, new talent, trusted favorites, and fine fine prizes
are included.
Oh yes,
Hijinks ensueÉ